Deported Haitians Left Broke and Vulnerable to Gang Violence

Each week, planes return Haitian nationals to Port-au-Prince — a capital fractured by gang control, kidnapping, and state collapse — with no money, no shelter, and no transition support waiting for them. They arrive as strangers in a dangerous country, many having spent their formative years in the United States, and are left to navigate immediate threats before nightfall. The accelerating pace of these deportations has exposed a humanitarian gap at the seam between two governments: one with the power to remove, and one without the capacity to receive. What remains unresolved is the oldest que